Rust is great. I've been following it since pre-1.0 and writing code with it for about as long also. It's really come a long way, my favorite language for pretty much anything except web development.
I mean, I feel many rust stuff (crates/dev/tools) seems to focus on high performance web so, as a low level guy enjoying bitwise ops and dynarec stuff I was wondering if rust what a good thing for me or if it would be better to stick in C. Can you tell me which kind of project you do in rust, what was your original language and why rust shine compared to your previous language?
I started on Java in school for software eng. After that I did a lot of front and backend development in dynamic languages and forgot all about types.
Until I discovered Haskell and saw what a really powerful type system can do. Rust's type system is very very similar to haskell's if you substitute the word 'trait' for 'typeclass'. However code is imperative, so that's nice for some applications, and is faster/lower level.
I've used the crate nom (https://github.com/Geal/nom) in the past, it's a parserc library for consuming bits/bytes. I used it to write a function that consumes a vector of unsigned bytes, 11 bits at a time. If you're interested in that sort of stuff, take a look for yourself and see if you like it.
As with most things in Rust nom generates parsers with little to no runtime overhead, so you pay nothing for the increase ergonomics.
(different person here, but I wanted to reply) I'm not sure that I agree as strongly as the first post on this branch, but I really do enjoy Rust. I'm using it for a particular tree-search with pruning computation that caches to RAM and saves to disk. The speed, memory compactness, and correctness are very beneficial. I will admit that getting comfortable with the borrow checker has taken some time, and I still have more to learn!
